Dhaka, July 5 -- Police arrested a man on Saturday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old child in the capital's Pallabi area .

The arrestee was identified as Md. Anwar Hossain Sayeed, 50.

According to Pallabi police sources, the incident occurred at around 2:40 AM on early Saturday in the Thirteen Hearts Camp area under Pallabi. Anwar Hossain Sayeed intercepted the victim while she was returning from the toilet, gagged her, and forcibly dragged her to the second floor of his rented house.

He then beat the victim, suffocated her with a pillow until she lost consciousness, and raped her. Later, he left the victim naked inside a water reservoir near a tubewell and fled the scene.

Subsequently, a local resident went to the water reservoir to...